1822 - Edocs

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That if any person or persons now are cr shall hereafter
be taken or caarged in execution or upon a capias aa respondendum
he may petition any judge of this Territory,
or any two justices of the peace: The judge or justices
ruity issue a warrant to the sheriff, jailor or other officer
to bring the body of the prisoner before him or them at
the courthouse, on a certain day with a list of the writs
or executions against him, which warrant the officers aforesaidare
hereby commanded to obey, of which application
and the time and place, notice must be given to the
plaintiff his or her agent or attorney, and the prisoner
coming before the judge shali subscrioe and deliver a schedule
of his whoie estate and deliver the same, if it be of
goods and chattels, choses in action of a moveable character,
to the officer and take the following oath ; " I, A, B, do
in the presence of Almighty God, swear or affirm, (as the
case may be,) process and declare the sehcdule now delivered
to and by me subscribed, doth contain to the
best of my knowledge a full, just, true and perfect
account and discovery of all the estates, goods and
and chattels, unto me in any wise belonging, and such'
debts as are to me owing, or to any person in trust for me,
and of all securities and contracts whereby any money
may hereaiter become payable, or any benefit or advantage
may hereafter accrue to me, or to my use, or any person or
persons in trust for me, and that I nor any person in trust
for me, have no.lands, money, stock, or other estate, real or
personal, in possession, reversion or remainder of the value
of the debtor debts, with which I am charged in exe-
cution, and that I have not directly, or indirectly, sold,
lessened or disposed of, in trust, or concealed all, or any
part of my lands, goods, stocks, debts, money or estate,
whereby to secure the same, or receive or expect any pro